Southeast Asia
Preparing for a Disinformation Maelstrom: Lessons for the Philippines
The tensions in the West Philippine Sea and the Taiwan straits have produced valuable insights on how disinformation campaigns are waged. This deluge of...
Indonesia’s ASEAN Summit 2023: Some Key Takeaways
The ASEAN Summit week in early September was filled with various impressions. To start, businesses convened the ASEAN Business & Investment Summit (ABIS) and...
Vietnam Stock Market Performance Shows Success of Anti-corruption Reforms
Comparing the behaviour of stock markets in Southeast Asian countries in parallel with their macroeconomic performances is an illuminating exercise. Several countries in the Association...
What Can We Expect From the New Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet?
Cambodia will have a new prime minister on August 22 in the person of Hun Manet, who will replace his father Hun Sen. This...
Cambodia: What Lies Behind the Sudden Resignation of Prime Minister Hun Sen?
The fact that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, now 71 according to the latest official change to his date of birth, has been seeking...
Myanmar Crisis, ASEAN’s Soft View and Diplomacy
The week of mid-July has been eventful and captivating for ASEAN-watchers, with several significant meetings taking place. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)...
ASEAN-China Defense Cooperation: Recent Developments
Defense cooperation is widely regarded as the highest level of collaboration between nations, typically pursued only when there is a significant level of trust...
ASEAN’s Digital Future: Promising but not Without Difficult Challenges
Despite ASEAN’s digital economy making head waves through its projected growth of more than $1 trillion by 2030, ASEAN’s digital future still faces tough...
Cambodia: Candlelight Election Ban Shows Paris Peace Agreements More Important Than Ever
The Paris Peace Agreements on Cambodia were signed on October 23, 1991, just weeks before the collapse of the Soviet Union which could no...
The Myanmar Question in the ASEAN Summit 2023: Lessons for the Future
Leaders from Southeast Asia gathered in Indonesia on May 10 and made a demand for an urgent end to the conflict in the military-run...
Myanmar Must Be Fixed
We live in a world in which a great Asian humanitarian crisis is still being ignored with not much substance being done about it....
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Central Asia
From Oil to Renewables: Kazakhstan’s Transformative Environmental Journey
In the contemporary geopolitical landscape, Kazakhstan's emerging role as...
Economy
A Budding Partnership: The Growth of Japanese–Bangladeshi Politico-Strategic Ties
On Nov. 11, 2023, the 14.3-km long channel of...
Americas
Chinese Foreign Minister’s Visit to the US: A Thrust on Strengthening China-US Bilateral Diplomacy
On Nov. 15, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. convened...
